Tuesday, July 25, 2006

YouTube has overtaken MySpace in worldwide daily reach, according to stats from Alexa.

An amazing chart, and an amazing story. I have to say that I visit YouTube far more than I visit MySpace, and ultimately YouTube has a far more universal appeal, being pure entertainment with a global appeal. MySpace's levels have been moving within the same range since April, but over in the far right hand side of the chart YouTube seems to be climbing more steeply than ever.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Another example of when you can't tell whether an ad is real is this email.

England had just been unceremoniously (& very predicably) dumped out of the World Cup by Portugal, and many thought that Ronaldo had deliberately conspired to get Rooney sent off.

So this email started doing the rounds:

Subject: Fw: BREAKING NEWS Sky Sports - Latest Football News

Live News.......Fifa in doubt over Portugal world cup win against England It's alleged that one of the Portuguese football players failed a drugs test after the match. If this is confirmed as positive, under World Football Federation rules, paragraph 6 sub section 2e, Portugal will forfeit the quarter final match and England will play France in a Semi Final match played at a later date. (scroll down for the full transcript of this report).

...Carlsberg do not send emails, but if they did they would probably be the best emails in the world.

Again... was this ever sent out by Carlsberg (there are other versions this year, including a text, and there were similar examples in 2002 and 2004), or is it user-generated?

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

FarFar, a Swedish new media agency, won a Gold Cyber Lion at this year's Cannes Advertising Festival, for this campaign for the Swedish Tourist Office.

And then one of them thought it would be a good laugh to bury it in the sand. But like squirrels with their nuts, Tom Eriksen was unable to find it when he went back for it. It's still buried on the vast expanse of the beach of the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes.

Now he's offering $1,000 to get it back. Read the full sorry tale, and see the film they've made about it here. Even though this might sound like it, this is not a scam - it's genuinely lost and they want it back!